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Poland has achieved a remarkable amount in recent years, but its sense of outrage is undimmed. Poland has been wiped off the map twice, partitioned, invaded, and shunted...

Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign...

Why a row over Austria's release of a Soviet commander is more than a dusty historical question. Who bears responsibility now for the crimes of the Soviet past? This is the...

Lithuania, Belarus and Russia are competing to be the Baltic's energy power. Over the past year, a high-stakes nuclear race has begun in the Baltic region, with the winner...

Virginija Langbakk talks about the challenges of opening the EU's gender-equality institute. At first, the prospect of becoming the first head of the European Institute for...

Vygaudas Ušackas, the new EU special representative to Afghanistan, is the latest diplomat to be exiled abroad by Lithuania's president. The joke in Vilnius is that if...

Howa life in exile is affecting the European Humanities University, a Belarusian university now re-established in Lithuania. When the European Humanities University (EHU)...

Should Belarus's strongman really be allowed to enter the EU? On 16 September, I was sitting in a tiny café in Vilnius with journalist-friends who had travelled from...

It says much that, in Russia, equating Stalin with Hitler might be deemed a criminal act. It is depressing that it even needed to be discussed. On Sunday in Vilnius, the...

Is Lithuania really persecuting Holocaust survivors as if they were war criminals? Not quite, but the story is still troubling. It starts with the Nazi occupation of...

EU agrees to a string of Lithuanian demands in bid to end 18 months of deadlock over key agreement with Russia. Lithuania has agreed to lift the threat of a veto on the...

Here's an elegant solution to an embarrassing mess. Attentive readers will recall that Günter Verheugen, Germany's European commissioner, is not having a relationship...

Employment and social affairs ministers agreed (1 December) to set up the European Institute for Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania, next year. The institute, which will...

After the collapse of the Lithuanian government last week, calls have been voiced for Budget Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite to return to Vilnius to head a new government....

Lithuania's hopes of joining the eurozone next year received a blow this week after the European Commission warned that its inflation rate would increase over the coming...

There is a red-light district in Vienna, but you would never hear about it from the Austrian tourism authorities. That's because they want rich, refined visitors who come...

When the Belarusian authorities closed the Minsk-based European Humanities University (EHU) in the summer of 2004, a number of European and American universities and NGOs...

THE EU's €100 billion-per-year budget is not geared towards meeting the ‘Lisbon agenda' goals of developing the world's most dynamic economy by 2010, according to...

LITHUANIA will probably call a second vote on EU membership if a low turnout invalidates its referendum this month, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis has said. At least 50%...

ROLANDAS Paksas may be a former stunt pilot but his surprise victory in Lithuania's presidential elections seems to have brought him down to earth with a bump. In the...